Restaurants

LP Street Food’s holiday pop-up events are wildly popular and reservations to dine among the lights and tinsel are encouraged. “How LPSF Stole Christmas” is the 2025 theme.

Holiday pop-ups bring seasonal cheer to the Corridor

Midwesterners are well-acquainted with the seasonal gloom that settles when the last autumn leaves fall and clouds cover the sky until spring. Several Corridor restaurants are combating the winter doldrums and bringing cheer with Christmas-themed pop-ups. In the midst of…

Taste of Iowa City returns with food and live music

Downtown Iowa City is hosting the 13th annual Taste of Iowa City on Wednesday from…

Taste of Iowa City

Restaurant operators say they ‘can’t win for losing’

When the Centers for Disease Control opened the floodgates May 13 to vaccinated Americans getting…

Common Table offers rare experience

Sarah Goettsch describes herself as fortunate. So, one day in the fall of 2019, when…

Loyal to Local launches ‘Bond’ gift certificate program

Loyal to Local, a campaign launched in November encouraging the community to patronize locally owned…

Johnson County bars ordered to stay shut another week

By CBJ News Staff [email protected] Bellying up to the bar and ordering a drink is…

Johnson County bars ordered to stay shut another week

By CBJ News Staff [email protected] Bellying up to the bar and ordering a drink is…

CHOMP feasts as delivery culture grows

PHOTO JAMES YEAR/THE DAILY IOWAN By Katharine Carlon [email protected] Iowa restaurants are struggling to stay…

CHOMP feasts as delivery culture grows

PHOTO JAMES YEAR/THE DAILY IOWAN By Katharine Carlon [email protected] Iowa restaurants are struggling to stay…

ICDD encourages new patron, restaurant & bar pledge

By CBJ News Staff [email protected] The Iowa City Downtown District (ICDD) has introduced a new…

State to strengthen compliance for bars and restaurants

Beginning this week, the state of Iowa will take additional steps to enforce compliance with…

Cedar Rapids council announces Lift Up Local promotion

By CBJ News Staff [email protected] To encourage support of local restaurants and retail businesses, Mayor…

Reynolds begins reopening 77 of state’s 99 counties

IMAGE: Gov. Kim Reynolds announces the loosening of some restrictions during her Monday press conference.…

Restaurant Association says industry on ‘precipice of collapse’

By CBJ News Staff [email protected] The Iowa Restaurant Association has released dire statewide numbers indicating…

Restaurants try to carry on as carry out dwindles

Carmen Legaspi, of La Reyna Mexican restaurant in Vinton. She says business at the establishment…

Fast food restaurants adapt to pandemic restrictions

Fast food franchisees are racing to keep up in a rapidly changing health and business…